Tobit 4:17-19

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¹⁷ Pour out your food and your wine on the grave of the righteous, but do not give it to sinners.^{(A) 18} Seek advice from every wise person, and do not be disdainful, since any counsel is useful. ¹⁹ At all times bless God and ask him that your ways may be made straight and that all your paths and plans may prosper. For no nation has good counsel, but the Lord himself gives it. Whom he wants to, he exalts, and whom he wants to, he casts down to Hades below. So now, my son, remember these commandments of mine, and do not let them be erased from your heart.^(B)